JP2008194411A - Hollow nasal plug for hay fever prevention - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide hollow nasal plugs for hay fever prevention consisting of plastic cylinders and medical gel, improving the difficulty in nasal breathing due to hay fever by the elasticity of the gel and exerting a large effect in securing sleep. <P>SOLUTION: This hollow nasal plug is formed by firmly and closely sticking flexible medical gel 2 to thin-wall cylindrical resin tube 1. The nasal plugs are inserted in the external nostrils 6 of a patient suffering from the insomnia due to the hay fever to greatly improve the dyspnea and resolve the insomnia due to cedar pollen. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a nasal plug for an allergic patient who suffers from hay fever due to cedar pollen, etc., who has difficulty breathing and who wakes up every two hours during sleep and suffers from measures against insomnia.

Every year, from mid-February to late May, the cedar pollen is scattered, and allergic symptoms to cedar pollen become so severe that many people suffer from hay fever. In Japan, it is estimated that about 20 million people fall.
A particularly severe effect on the symptoms is that nasal breathing is not possible during sleep, and awakening occurs every two hours because of the difficulty of breathing. Nasal breaches entangled with the nasal hairs, reducing the distribution area of breathing air, making nasal breathing difficult. As a result, days with a feeling of lack of sleep overlap every day, fatigue is accumulated, and the patient feels unwell and sometimes misses due to insomnia.
Since this suffering can only be understood by the experienced person, various devices have been devised mainly by hay fever patients and related persons, but devices effective for insomnia have not yet been commercialized.
Although nasal creams and sprays have been commercialized as drugs, no significant effect on insomnia is observed. In the techniques of Patent Document 1 and Patent Document 2, devices corresponding to nostril plugs are shown. However, these use a wisdom cloth or the like, and play a role of holding a fragrance, a drug, a water-absorbing polymer, and the like. In this way, it is a technology that is fundamentally different from the technical idea of actively expanding the respiratory passage area. There was no product that makes nasal breathing easier, except for an integrated H-shaped instrument (trade name NOZOBENT) that uses the elasticity of plastic for the purpose of spreading a pair of nasal cavities to the left and right.

The inventor has also been suffering from serious hay fever for over 30 years, but has tried to make various instruments hand-made by thinking and error in order to reduce his own health damage, and confirmed its effectiveness. Since I was able to confirm the great effect on insomnia, which was serious as a result of thinking and wearing for 5 years, I decided to file a new patent application, thinking that this new device would be used by many hay fever patients.
JP-A-8-308947 JP 2004-121660 A JP-A-2005-329367 JP2004-24803 JP-A-2004-204401 JP 2004-313669 A JP2001-8963 Utility model No. 3076780 Utility model No. 3110781 6-86746 6-58932

  Hollow nasal plug for hay fever.

Problems to be solved by the invention

  The first problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide means that can be expected to have a great effect on nightly insomnia, which is the most serious for hay fever patients.

  The second problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a new nasal plug that can reliably prevent sneezing by almost completely sealing the delicate part that induces sneezing at the entrance of the nasal cavity where nasal hairs grow. Is to provide.

  The means necessary to solve the first problem is that a medical gel with a guaranteed pharmaceutical safety is fixed to the outer periphery of a resin tube having an inner diameter of about 8 mm or more on the basis of adult males. Thus, in a nose plug for anti-hay fever comprising a double structure in which the outer diameter of the gel is about 12.5 millimeters, it is desirable that the gel is thicker than the resin tube. For example, the gel is preferably about 2 thick. In the dual structure of the medical and the resin tube, the physical properties of the elastic gel are utilized so that both are firmly adhered. Therefore, a hay fever nostril plug can be constructed without using any special adhesive. It is an important point that the inner diameter of the resin tube is 8 millimeters and has a sufficient opening area.

  In order to solve the second problem, the length of the double-structured nasal plug should be more than 10 millimeters so that at least 10 millimeters from the nostril entrance can be covered with medical gel. This is because the part where the nasal hair grows is a part sensitive to the attraction of sneezing, and in the preferred embodiment of the present invention, it is 18 millimeters. This is because the nose hair can be almost completely covered with the gel even if the nose hair falls to the back by wearing the nostril plug.

The invention's effect

  In the present invention, a nasal plug having a sufficient opening area is brought into close contact with the nostril from the outer nostril to 18 mm through a medical gel that is highly elastic and has no fear of damaging the inside of the nostril, thereby almost completely preventing nasal congestion. It became possible to lose. As a result, it became possible to reliably prevent the insomnia phenomenon that wakes up every two hours due to nasal congestion during sleep. At this time, the nostril plug is soft and plays a role of pushing the nostril, so it is convenient for improving nasal congestion. In the prior art, there are porous nostril plugs that hold drugs for alleviating pollen allergies, but there are no nostril plugs intended to ease nasal breathing.

Even in hay fever patients suffering from nasal breathing difficulty due to the effects of a large amount of nasal mucus collected in the nasal hair during sleep and suffering from the phenomenon of waking up quickly, the nostril passes through the medical gel according to the hollow nostril plug of the present invention. As a result, the nostril plug covers and covers the entire nostrils and is strongly pressed against the inner surface of the nostrils by the elastic force of the gel. It became possible to prevent.
The inner surface of the resin tube having an inner diameter of about 8 mm has a larger area than the cross section of the nostril before mounting, which approximates an ellipse to an ellipse, and can secure a sufficient breathing area. In addition, the nasal duck that is solidified from the liquid state does not narrow the distribution area, so nasal congestion is less likely to occur.
The reason for this is that the nostrils are spread with the medicinal of the hollow nostril plug, and even if the nose hairs are closely attached to each other near the upper part of the hollow nostril plug and accumulate at high density, even during sleeping hours of about 8-10 hours This is because the circulation area of breathing air necessary for nasal breathing can be maintained. Resin pipes are easy to use, including the price of polyolefin-based general-purpose resins.

  According to the hay fever countermeasure nostril plug of the present invention, an effect of newly preventing snoring can be expected. As a result of the gel that is also gentle to the mucous membrane in the nostril being actively pushed and expanded, the flow velocity of air in the nasal cavity can be slowed and the vibration of the palate that causes snoring can be reduced. Furthermore, securing sufficient air circulation area for nasal breathing greatly reduces the need for unconscious mouth breathing, thus promoting nasal breathing and reducing mouth breathing to dry the bronchial mucosa. The effect to prevent can be expected. If you have more opportunities to sleep with your mouth closed, you can prevent the lower jaw from falling and the throat airway from narrowing, so you can expect a virtuous cycle that prevents snoring and makes it easier to sleep.

  In addition to the above, the present invention can tightly seal a portion sensitive to sneezing in the vicinity of the nostril, which is the entrance of respiratory air on the inner surface of the nasal cavity, with a medical gel that can gently adhere to the skin, so that sneezing can be suppressed almost completely. became. In addition to the synergistic effect of these great effects, the cedar pollen season has made it possible for people who suffered from poor physical condition due to insomnia to be able to sleep well. As a result of being able to solve the problem of daily accumulation of the most painful insomnia symptoms of hay fever patients, it is possible to have a great health and economic effect on many people.

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION

An embodiment as the best mode for carrying out the present invention is shown in a sectional view of a hollow nostril plug for hay fever countermeasure in FIG. 1, and FIG. 2 shows a state of a nasal cavity during sleep of a hay fever patient. FIG. 3 is a partial cross-sectional view, and FIG. 3 is a partial cross-sectional view when the nostril plug of the present invention shown in FIG. 1 is attached. In FIG. 1, 1 is a relatively thin resin cylinder. The wall thickness was 0.7 mm and the length was 18 mm. The material is composed of a general-purpose resin material such as polypropylene or polyethylene. A medical gel 2 is in close contact with the outer periphery of the resin cylinder 1. The gel 2 has a strong elastic force, and uses the elastic force to firmly adhere to the resin cylinder without using any adhesive. Due to this strong adhesion, there will be no phenomenon that the two will deviate even after many years of use. If the gel 2 is not a relatively thick one, the usability is deteriorated.
In this embodiment, the thickness of the resin cylinder 1 is 1.4 mm. The axial length of both is 18 mm, although it also affects the effect of preventing sneezing. This specific dimension is based on an adult male, and it is obvious that a smaller dimension is appropriate for women and children.

When using the nostril plug for hay fever in this embodiment, if a small amount of saliva is put on the outer periphery of the gel inserted earlier with a finger, it can be inserted into the nostril very easily.
The elasticity of the gel may increase the coefficient of friction in some cases, but it can be easily put on by using the user's own saliva for reliable insertion of the nostril plug.

  In the partial cross-sectional view in which the nasal cavity portion of the hay fever patient shown in FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view, a large number of nasal hairs grow near the outer nostril 6, which is the exit of the nasal cavity 3. It is in a state where nasal breathing is easily inhibited by entanglement. As a result, nasal breathing becomes difficult after 2 hours and you will wake up quickly. The patient discharges the nasal limb 5 accumulated in the nasal cavity 3 from the nasal cavity 3 by biting the nose and goes to bed, but after 2 hours, he wakes up again with the same nasal congestion. As a result of such nights every day, the lack of sleep continues, and the patient feels unwell, causing serious damage to health and economic activities.

FIG. 3 illustrates that obstruction of nasal breathing is eliminated by a partial cross-sectional view showing a cross section of the nasal cavity of a hay fever patient wearing the hollow nostril plug of the present invention.
The hollow nostril plug for hay fever measures according to the present invention, which is composed of a thin hollow resin tube 1 and a medical gel 2 that completely covers the outer periphery thereof, allows a hay fever patient to apply a little saliva to the tip of the medical gel 2. While turning, the nasal cavity 3 is worn so as to completely cover the portion where the nasal hair 4 grows.
Since the medical gel 2 applies pressure to the nasal cavity 3 on its entire surface, the nostril of the nasal cavity 3 has an effect that the cross section of the nasal cavity 3 is expanded in a circular shape and the circulation area of the respiratory air in the nasal cavity slightly above the nostril plug is increased. The booger 4 during sleep accumulates above the nostril plugs where no nasal hair is growing.
The nose hair 4 shown in FIG. 2 is completely pushed down by the medical gel 2 of the nostril plug and completely covers the inner surface of the nostril portion of the sensitive nasal cavity 3 that induces sneezing. As a result, the induction of sneezing is prevented. It is possible. Compared with the state in which the nostril plug shown in FIG. 2 is not used, it is possible to secure a circulation area of respiratory air necessary for nasal breathing and to sleep well for 8 to 10 hours. Reducing nasal congestion that makes nasal breathing difficult every 2 hours after going to bed, leading to daily insomnia, a breakthrough remedy for symptoms that could not be handled by conventional technologies Was able to be realized. The effect was able to be felt by the present inventor who has been suffering from hay fever for over 30 years.

  Cross-sectional view of a hollow nostril plug for hay fever countermeasure of the embodiment of the present invention   Partial sectional view including nasal section of sleeping pollen patient   Partial sectional view including a nasal cavity cross section of a hay fever patient equipped with a hollow nostril plug for hay fever countermeasure of the present invention

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Resin cylinder 2 Medical gel 3 Nasal cavity 4 Nasal hair 5 Granular booger 6 Outer nostril

Claims (3)

  A pair of thin-walled resin tubes having a sufficient opening area, this resin tube, and a relatively thick medical gel that covers the outer surface of the resin tube. A hollow nostril plug for hay fever prevention, characterized in that the medical is firmly fixed.   The length of the entire nostril plug is 10 mm or more, preferably about 18 mm, which can completely cover a portion where nose hairs grow, based on an adult male. Item 1. A hollow nostril plug for hay fever prevention   A hollow nostril plug for hay fever prevention, characterized in that the inner diameter of the resin tube is about 8 mm when used for adult males.

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